Radipodi, the feisty art therapy advocate

Our team finds her in an outdoor studio at the Gaborone Secondary School (GSS) where she teaches art, helping a male student with his project. The 'poor' lad has both his arms outstretched on top of a table and his knotted hands are in plaster of Paris.

"The material that this child is using is hot so he has to bear the heat," she informs us as if she were issuing a warning. Indeed, the boy complains that the plaster of Paris is burning him but the determined Radipodi hushes him up by reminding him that the plaster was recently smeared on his face and he did not complain that much and he grunts in response. Although she does not say it, it is clear that she is adamant that the boy had to 'suffer' a little bit in order to come up with a high quality piece. What this says about the artist is that she is someone who never gives up on an art project until it is complete.